“And we have plenty to do the basic education,” he said. But, that basic funding doesn’t always allow teachers to explore these different methods like ‘differentiation.’ Teachers not getting all the resources they want, that’s nothing new.

But Ashlie Buresh is one of a growing number of teachers using a new tool to get what they want anyway through crowdfunding. Crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter allow artists, filmmakers, whatever to raise funds for a project they are working on.